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All Quotes by author - Gloria Steinem
" A bad facelift is like a bad toupee. "
Like
Bad
Facelift
" Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot. "
Party
I Believe
More
" After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that! "
Live
Feminism
Way
" Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave. "
More
Look
Freedom
" A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves. "
Society
Word
Everyone
" A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. "
Job
Who
Before
" All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together. "
Create
Together
Work
" All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing. "
Identity
Color
Legal
" A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive. "
Racism
Past
Vote
" America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. "
Middle
Starving
America
" A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means. "
Moving
Motion
Feel
" Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward. "
Inward
Opposite
Depression
" Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it. "
Welfare
Against
Anything
" Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood. "
Treat
Dirty
Human
" A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman. "
Than
Woman
More
" A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. "
Small
Prison
Pedestal
" As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility. "
Responsibility
Mother
Father
" As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of one. Perhaps more important, children will grow up thinking that only women can be loving and nurturing, and men cannot. "
Children
Work
Women
" A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. "
Playboy
Reading
Woman
" A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. "
Like
Man
Without
" Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form. "
Work
Care
Difficult
" Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're dumb. "
Think
Smart
People
" Because women of color were more likely to be in the paid labor force, they were more likely to recognize discrimination, so they were always leading the women's movement. "
Discrimination
Color
Women
" Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful. "
Painful
People
You
" Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle. "
Circle
You
Way
" Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. "
Admirable
More
Amazing
" Children are short people. Some you like, some you don't. "
Short
People
Like
" Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men. "
Men
Black
Gone
" Diane Keaton is good for women in and of herself. She's smart and funny and real. "
Women
Funny
Good
" Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing. "
Spent
Men
Competing
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